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Davids is turning back on black

Article Percy Zvomuya - 8 Nov 2013

A notable debut novel - "The Blacks of Cape Town" - ?explores how complex ?issues of race colour South Africa's past, ?present and future.

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Cave clans bear up under SF’s stern lens

Article Gwen Ansell - 6 Nov 2013

Shaman explores the boundaries that divide science fiction imagination and history in order to try and explain who we are.

M&G LitFest: ‘The only job in which one cannot lie is poetry’

Article bogdan TagDiv - 1 Sep 2013

Panelists at the M&G Literary Festival this weekend celebrated the work of poets Constantine Cavafy and George Seferis.

LitFest news: Keorapetse Kgositsile added to panel line-up

Article Staff Reporter - 27 Aug 2013

South Africa's Poet Laureate, Keorapetse Kgositsile, will be on the panel Cavafy, Seferis and South African poets at the M&G Literary Festival.

Author’s Notes: CA Davids

Article Mg Correspondent - 23 Aug 2013

CA Davids answers questions about her debut novel, The Blacks of Cape Town (Modjadji).

An ode to Grecian earnestness

Article bogdan TagDiv - 23 Aug 2013

One of our most venerable poets extols the virtues not of the classical Greeks, but of their descendants.

Alchemists of the ordinary

Article bogdan TagDiv - 23 Aug 2013

Hedley Twidle asks if slow is faster when it comes to food, sex, reading and writing.

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Litfest 2013: Migration is a tale that knows no bounds

Article bogdan TagDiv - 23 Aug 2013

Behind an apparently amorphous multitude are distinct individuals, each with a particular mission.

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Literary Festival 2013: Achebe sets the agenda

Article Darryl Accone - 23 Aug 2013

The fourth annual <em>M&G</em> Literary Festival aims to foster robust debate about political, social and literary revolution.

Heirs to the struggle do it no justice

Article bogdan TagDiv - 23 Aug 2013

The African National Congress' subsequent behaviour is changing how the movement will be viewed in the future, writes Craig MacKenzie.

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